Saturday 24 May was the programme Oh Purity In Watching Landscapes showed on Danish TV, more specifically on DR-K. Until we, hopefully, get the possibility to see the programme streamed by the DR, or maybe even better – broadcasted on Norwegian TV?, you can read more about the reception of the album in Politiken. There Christian Munch-Hansen wrote that the songs, in all their beauty, are also sharp in their form and communication.

Trinelise was also guest on DR3, radio, on Saturday 23 May, in the programme Puls. You can hear her and music from Oh Purity from appr. 1.19.00 in the timeline.

TheArtsDesk.com’s David Nice visited Oslo and the Norwegian Opera to see and hear Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene in Alcina: “…it’s true that I’ve wanted to visit the award-winning Opera House on the harbour since it opened in 2008. But I’ve just been captivated by a disc in a thousand, Eike’s The Image of Melancholy, one of those genuinely thoughtful programmes where Dowland, Holborne, Byrd and Eike’s exquisite playing of a Biber sonata movement somehow mesh with bittersweet Norwegian wedding marches and Celtic moods”Read his interview with Bjarte Eike and his comments on the music and music making in what apparently was a snowy visit in Oslo.

Conceived by the baroque violinist Bjarte Eike for his period band Barokksolistene, this programme is his very personal ‘image of melancholy’. As he writes in his liner notes, ‘for me, melancholy is not only synonymous with sadness and despair, it is a state also harbouring reflection, meditation and relief.’

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￼This recording is perfect, the music capable of transporting us to far away - geographically, but also more importantly on those priceless inner wanderings which can show us more about ourselves than we imagined. - Read more